Scope and Contents Scrapbook relating to Robert Mossman and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1905. The scrapbook includes: Mossman`s commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Edinburgh City Volunteer Artillery, 1893; 17 letters, 1902-1905, of Mossman to his father and `Isabella`, concerning his journey and experiences on board ship, destinations on his journey including Kngstown in Ireland, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, Port Stanley, the South Orkneys and Buenos Aires; a letter of William...

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The papers contain a large number of photocopies of documents dating back to the 17th century.

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The contents are as follows. (i) Letters to Elizabeth Oliver, 1920-1945, undated, with a telegram to her husband Major Edward Oliver, 1905 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous papers including verses, accounts, inventories, invitations, menu cards, and newspaper cuttings, chiefly concerning India, 1918-1946, undated (folio 21); (iii) Newspaper cuttings, 1912-1946, undated (folio 137).

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Containing selections of verse and some prose 'contributed' by the Monks at their regular meetings was published as 'The reminscences of the Monks of St Giles', volumes I-IV.

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Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Tom Weir is probably best known for his long-running STV series ‘Weir’s Way’. He was born in Glasgow and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. He worked as a surveyor for the Ordnance Survey before embarking on the career that was to make him a household name. Tom Weir is also notable as a mountaineer. He was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and a number of important exploratory expeditions in Nepal in the early 1950s. He became a...

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Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

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Although the vast majority of the menu cards are for the annual dinner of the Edinburgh Borderers RFC, there is also one menu for a special British Lions and All Blacks dinner dated 1993, which has been signed by the speakers.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sir Charles Dalrymple (1839-1916), formerly Fergusson, was the youngest son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, of Kilkerran. He succeeded to the estates of Hailes on the death of his father in 1849, when he assumed the name of Dalrymple. He was created a baronet in 1887, and a Privy Councillor in 1905. Sir Charles married in 1874, Alice Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, of Blairquhan. She died in 1884. Sir Charles at first seemed destined for a legal...

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Containing selections of verse and some prose 'contributed' by the Monks at their regular meetings was published as 'The reminscences of the Monks of St Giles', volumes I-IV.

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The British Deaf and Dumb Association was founded in Leeds in 1890. In 1971 it became known as the British Deaf Association.

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Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

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Correspondence, annual reports, financial statements, fanzines and match day programmes, 1992-2005, of and relating to Hibernian Football Club collected by Philip D Thomson.

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Correspondence, climbing journals, and working papers of Peter Hodgkiss, mountaineer and publisher; including papers of the Ernest Press.

The journals provide a record of the climbing activities of a keen mountaineer. The correspondence files contain both personal and business letters of Hodgkiss. The book files concern publications of the Ernest Press.

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Annual Reports, accounts, reports, plan, fixture cards, menu cards and Order of Service, 1985-2015.

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These volumes include newspaper cuttings, proofs for Hansard, electoral addresses, and political cartoons.

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The scrapbooks take much the same format as those of the Marchioness's sister, Margaret, Lady Newhailes, and many of the photographs, programmes and menu-cards relate to the same events.

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Speeches given by Macintosh at annual dinners or similar festive events held by various bodies associated with the Royal High School. Most of these are preserved together with the dinner programmes.